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...Secretary of Defense than anyone else. In his efforts to get more bang for the buck, he had retarded the U.S. potential for fighting any kind of war, any place, any time. But he had effectively led the armed forces in their development of the strategic missiles necessary for ...
After studying their records, the scientists concluded that some well-sheltered humans might well survive an all-out nuclear war. But it seemed clear that the world into which the survivors emerged would lack certain valuable things. Most large mammals are known to be just as radiation-sensitive as humans, so domestic animals that survived the bombs would soon die from eating contaminated forage. Human survivors would have to go without meat, milk and other accustomed protein foods. Forest lovers to the end, the Emory biologists made one positive recommendation. Pine seeds, they said, should be stockpiled in shelters...
Such rocket strikes would probably be few. but in all-out nuclear war Russian-manned bombers would also at tack the U.S.. and some of them would surely reach their targets. Russian submarines would attack coastal cities. They may not have Polaris-type rockets that can be fired underwater, but they could surface at night and fire similar missiles with nuclear war heads. "Suitcase" bombs hidden in U.S. cities by saboteurs and nuclear mines planted in harbors by Communist-controlled ships might be novel features of the earth's first (and possibly last) nuclear...
...sagging Seiberling Rubber Co., Chairman James P. Seiberling, 63, son of the founder, handed the presidency and chief executive title to Executive Vice President Harry Paul Schrank, 58. Schrank's promotion stilled, at least momentarily, the feud between the Seiberling clan and Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, who lost an all-out proxy war in 1956 but now holds five seats on the isman board. The move, crowed Lamb, has "my enthusiastic support." Outspoken Harry Schrank, respected by competitors for his gift for spotting industry trends, plans to push diversification in chemicals and plastics...
...Chinese Reds had been boasting that since they took over the mainland in 1949, there had been no cases of cholera. Campaigns against filth helped to suppress it, but sanitation has recently been neglected. Last week, still making no admission of cholera, Radio Canton reported an all-out campaign against "seasonal diseases...